FATAL FALL DOWN A HOLD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 11 September 1909, Page 3

FATAL FALL DOWN A HOLD.

[Uniiid Fbbsb Association.J .'-.'■ X-'- ; WELLINGTON, .Saturday. .-: •. James N;: Asquith, 4 . a -married man, •■■aged'-' about 60, -employed by a local '■ -stevedore, fell down the hold of the Shaw Savill steamer Arawa, at the Queen's Wharf, this morning, and susvtained such injuries that he died ten minutes after, being picked up. • "My appetite's bad— can't seem to improve it." Try Stearns' Wine of Cod Liver Extract. It creates an appetite for nourishing food. It tones up the lAole system and gives you rich, red blood.* New, Zealand : : s to be given the opportunity of falling in with • Australian coinage methods when they ate adopted; but they have now boen indefinitely postponed. About 70. men nre still engaged in bushfelling in the itangitatau Block. The work' will not 6e continued after work under . ordinary conditions is available. . : .'.,;. t : :£!?■' The Palinerston Borough Council has decided to make application to Mr Andrew ' Carnegie for a library grant of £5000. Dr. Valintine, Inspector-Goueral of Hospitals, told the-TaranaUi Hospital Board that he was of opinion Uiat the 'appointment of district nuiKOa on the lines now adopted — the settlers contributing a share of the cost — should, form an integral part of our hospital system, so ' that the country settlers, who made sucli great contributions to the upkeep of our hospitals, might'' know that they were not being forgotten or overlooked. The first district nurse under tho ByB ; tern alluded' to by Dr. -Valintine, has just been stationed in Taranaki; Queensland doe's not seem' to be all that it has been niade out to be.' A recent visitor has asked " whethet ' duriDg a period of twenty years— which ..is not too long a period iu a man 's life-time— whether- afr the • eiii 'of twenty - years ; they would have .done better in a country^ which, is so prolific .on the "one hand, and, oh ihe other is so cruelly devastated by droughts^ floods, and .'; fires, or whether, at the end of that period theywould riot have- been Vbettor off in, say, 2<few Zealand, with its,, equable climate: and its . mo'ro • oven . conditions. ■;'-.■'■■:''■ •.■■„; , . . • .. ."There seems to . bo in Australia a. 'serve. you right' feeling in respect to tho depression in New Zealand, ' ' said an Ashburton 'man,' who has recently returned /fros'ni Sydney. JThe idea Avas prevalent that New Zealand had in the past -gone- in for what might be- termed 'hot-house'' legislation, and that she was now only reaping the -fruits of what she had sown in tliat connection. " Mr Bernard Sba-w has explained to an' rinterviewer from the '/Giornale 4'ltalia" how a false impression was created of him being a consummate master of the Italian tongue. "Once," he said, "I was in MilaH with a party of English folk. We were dining at a restaurant, and bur waiter knew no language other thnr. .his own. When the moment came to pay we. were unable to make' him understand that we wanted, not one bill, 9 but 24 separate ' v ones. My friends insisted that I must know Italian, so to act as interpreter I racked my memory for chips from the . language of Dante, but in vain. All of a sudden a line from tho opera ' The ' Huguenots ' dashed to the brain— 'Ogniino per se; per tutti il cielp.' (Every man for himself, arid. Heaven for all.) I declaimed it. The army 'of waiters... were doubled -up laughter; my friends applauded wildly, and my Jtamc as an Italian scholar has been on tho increase, ever since." Iy'. .* ' .. ■ ■ , ,■ . • . The death of -Mr Alfred Jamos -Sanders,-at the, age. of 57,"removes another of tho Auckland-born- boys who . acted ■as dispatch riders during the last Maori "qvivrs,. states, ;J tho ''Hbv. raid.", ; He-. r ;jo,ined ".".'the; Tauranga tiighj V-Hbrsp.i fduring; Sfx^Kogti 's -war, and^althpu^h a mere boy)._it> : often fe'i to' his 'lot to earry- dispatchos ■•single-handed 'from Tauranga to the . Thairies. .- ' In -.. those, day^ this meant 'i wild night ride from.Waihi beach, near- Katikati Heads, over the range to-the'Thame's^as^Oninemuri was unsafe'; for Europeans, and had 'to be carefully avoided.' He narrowly es.caped;' the Opepe massacre, • having ■been sent back to Taupo for. instructions shortly before the camp was attacked. After the war he settled in the Bay of Plenty, and for many years drove tho mail-coach between Tauranga and Rotorua. .